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they were both in dagestan last year. according to police, he ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos demonstrating how to make and prepare homemade explosives or use a cell phone as a detonator. and, says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn? >> i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their banded experience. >> he says the mill tants trained men who live in other countries. >> there are reports that dujan was observed at the mosque and he was observed meeting tsarnaev. do you know this? >> translator: i really can't answer this. for different reasons, i can't answer. you understand me? >> did abudujan and tamerlan meet? we don't know. this past december, they were killed when russian special forces hit their hideout. >> maybe he's a hero, the brother, maybe he isn't. but tamerlan watches these videos and then this individual gets killed. now, logic would tell you, who would you be mad at? runners in the boston marathon? wh
they were both in dagestan last year. according to police, he ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos demonstrating how to make and prepare homemade explosives or use a cell phone as a detonator. and, says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn? >> i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their banded experience. >> he says the mill tants trained men who live in other countries....
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he made his way to dagestan, a rigs republic next to his family's homeland now also a part of russia. >> he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> translator: he smiled a lot. and i asked him, is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remain as miss terrorist we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parents' home keeping mostly to family and friends, helping his father out in his businesses around town, and often sleeping in. the tsarnaev family is part of the chechen community here, like many other chechens displaced from their homeland. after the second world war, tens of thousands chechens paerished in a massive slaughter ordered by josef stalin. dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. >> it's a sure sign of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1993 they called their little son after the pro independence president. >> but chechen independence wouldn't last. another war with russia would kill thousands and chechen extremists would wage a c
he made his way to dagestan, a rigs republic next to his family's homeland now also a part of russia. >> he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> translator: he smiled a lot. and i asked him, is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remain as miss terrorist we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parents' home keeping mostly to family and...
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and dagestan officials earlier in the week. nick paton walsh is in the tsarnaev hometown right now. you met and talked to both the mother and father this week, do we know where they went? >> we know they were pretty anxious to retain their privacy after what's obviously been a very difficult week, a lot of media here and on top of that the accusations against both of their sons and investigation by the fbi and russian security. we have though made our own journey to look into the past of this particular family. and being inside the town chechnya, the war-torn the heart of all the volatility of this region and being to the hometown of tsarnaev family there. heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand, the tsarnaev's family identity was forged here. we found their hometown and what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this
and dagestan officials earlier in the week. nick paton walsh is in the tsarnaev hometown right now. you met and talked to both the mother and father this week, do we know where they went? >> we know they were pretty anxious to retain their privacy after what's obviously been a very difficult week, a lot of media here and on top of that the accusations against both of their sons and investigation by the fbi and russian security. we have though made our own journey to look into the past of...
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the 19-years-old college student was planning to return to dagestan last summer, arriving just as older brother tamerlan was returning from a six month stay there. my pass woport is not going to e in time. she needs to chill out. i'll find my own honey. tsarnaev take as train to washington d.c. complaining about a noisy child. saying new york looks dirty from afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty. new york is so ratchet on black friday, it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon. religion seems to be of growing importance over the last year. quote, brothers at the mosque either think i'm a convert or i'm from algeria or syria. on another occasion he shares, spent the day with this jamaican muslim convert. my religion is truth. other tweets are of interest to investigators. i will die young. several months later in august, boston marathon isn't good place to smoke. in january of this year, quote, i got those brothers that i'd take a bullet for in the leg or shoulder or something, nothing fatal though. quote, if you have the knowledge and the inspiration, all that is left is to take action. >> r
the 19-years-old college student was planning to return to dagestan last summer, arriving just as older brother tamerlan was returning from a six month stay there. my pass woport is not going to e in time. she needs to chill out. i'll find my own honey. tsarnaev take as train to washington d.c. complaining about a noisy child. saying new york looks dirty from afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty. new york is so ratchet on black friday, it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon. religion seems to be...
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he made his way to dagestan, a russian republic, next to his family's ancestral homeland chechnya, today also a part of russia. >> translator: he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> he smiled a lot, and i asked him is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remains a mystery. we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parent's home, keeping mostly to family and friends, helping his father out in his businesses around town and often sleeping in. the tsarnaev family is part of the chechen community here. like many other chechens displaced from their homeland. after the second world war, tens of thousands of chechens perished in a mass deportation order by josef stalin. in the 1990s, chechens fought and won a bloody war for independence from russia. it was during this violence that the younger tsarnaev brother dzhokhar was born and given the name of a chechen leader. >> it's a sure side of chechen patriotism in the family that in 1939 they called their little son dzhok
he made his way to dagestan, a russian republic, next to his family's ancestral homeland chechnya, today also a part of russia. >> translator: he could radiate light and warmth. >> his extended family in dagestan welcomed him warmly. >> he smiled a lot, and i asked him is this your customary american smile? he was more of an american. >> much of what tamerlan tsarnaev did here remains a mystery. we know he stayed for some weeks here at his parent's home, keeping mostly...
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abu dijan and tamerlan were both in dagestan last year. according to dagestani police abu dijan's group ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos, demonstrating how to mix and prepare homemade explosives or use cell phones as a detonator. and says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn in the woods? >> translator: i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their bandit experience. >> reporter: he says the militants trained chechen men who live in other countries. >> there are reports that dujan was observed at the mosque and he was observed meeting tsarnaev. do you know this? >> translator: i really can't answer this. for different reasons i can't answer. do you understand me? >> reporter: did abu dujan and tamerlan meet? we don't know. this past december abu dujan and other militants were killed when russian special forces hit their hideout. >> maybe he's a hero of the brother. maybe he isn't. but tamerlan watches these videos, and then this indivi
abu dijan and tamerlan were both in dagestan last year. according to dagestani police abu dijan's group ran a training camp in the woods and made these videos, demonstrating how to mix and prepare homemade explosives or use cell phones as a detonator. and says the local police chief, the militants trained foreigners. >> what did the foreigners learn in the woods? >> translator: i can't talk about the number of foreigners, but they met to exchange their bandit experience. >>...
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so they had something very specific on the ground in chechnya or dagestan. i would be very interested to know what that was, what group he was associated with, was he going to training camps. and i completely agree, there is no explanation for going to dagestan for six months. if you've ever been there, it's not a kind of place you would take vacation. you know, it's a place where you would run into militants, and somebody like him who had converted himself to militant islam would go out and look for them. what do the russians know, who did he see? remember, zawahiri was there, was arrested. zacarias how sawy was there, and more than that go for military experience. my question is that where he got his, if he did have some. >> right. tom fuentes formerly with the fbi, your sources tell cnn the information the russians provided was extremely thin. but that said, the russians were right, this guy was apparently up to no good. how did he slip through the cracks? >> we still don't know what no good he was up to. he was reported, investigated here to the extent h
so they had something very specific on the ground in chechnya or dagestan. i would be very interested to know what that was, what group he was associated with, was he going to training camps. and i completely agree, there is no explanation for going to dagestan for six months. if you've ever been there, it's not a kind of place you would take vacation. you know, it's a place where you would run into militants, and somebody like him who had converted himself to militant islam would go out and...
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they trace them not only to dagestan but also to chechnya. our nick paton walsh went to chechnya today. >> reporter: heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this town when he was about 11 before the second war began and this street was bombed. it's hard to be a chechen without a tie to your homeland. and these ruins bombed out in the first chechen war are what's left of the family home of the father to the alleged boston bombers. their great uncle remembers a devoutly religious tamerlan from last year but also them as children. >> translator: they were this big, but i didn't see them after that. and they weren't involved in that crazy stuff. >> reporter: i show him tamerlan's picture from online. >> translator: that's
they trace them not only to dagestan but also to chechnya. our nick paton walsh went to chechnya today. >> reporter: heading into chechnya you feel the weight of two brutal wars. for an independence moscow would never allow. its ruins rebuilt over the only upside of the kremlin's heavy hand. the tsarnaev family's identity was forged here. we found their hometown, what's left of the family home. in its ruins lie the brutalized past the brothers must have grown up with. tamerlan fled this...
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let me bring back nick in dagestan. by what you're hearing on the ground, is russia looking into possible connections between this militant? we'll put a picture up. abu dujon and tamerlan tsarnaev the 26-year-old, dead, alleged bomber in boston? >> russian officials, the fsb in moscow i spoke with have no comment thon case at all. that has been the case for quite sometime. that policeman we spoke to earlier on i put the question straight to him. he told us abu dujon went to this islamist mosque in the heart of the city several times, met other people the police considered extremists and of course we have heard from people around here it's entirely possible tamerlan tsarnaev may also have been to that mosque. we don't have concrete proof that the two men met at this point but the piece of the jigsaw are beginning to overlap at this point. it is entirely possible of course the opportunity was there. we just don't know if it was seized upon, wolf. >> so, peter, let's look ahead a little bit. the coming days. do you anticip
let me bring back nick in dagestan. by what you're hearing on the ground, is russia looking into possible connections between this militant? we'll put a picture up. abu dujon and tamerlan tsarnaev the 26-year-old, dead, alleged bomber in boston? >> russian officials, the fsb in moscow i spoke with have no comment thon case at all. that has been the case for quite sometime. that policeman we spoke to earlier on i put the question straight to him. he told us abu dujon went to this islamist...
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russian forces killed him last december in dagestan. dagestani police have revealed to cnn this small-time militant ran training camps for bomb-making that foreigners came to. police gave us images of his group training in the woods. this one explains how to mix and prepare homemade explosives almost anywhere. and the group's pictures suggest they learned to use a mobile phone as a debtonater. >> translator: we do not have audio or visual confirmation, but we have information confirming that he met with foreigners. there are dagestanis who come here to meet in their historical mother land whose roots are here. >> reporter: could that have included americans? >> translator: it's entirely possible. but i know there were arabs and turks among them. but whether there were americans, i don't know. >> reporter: the police chief told us that abu dujan was observed coming here to this islamic mosque behind me which itself denies any links to extremism. it is possible, though, that tamerlan tsarnaev last year also prayed here. >> translator: of
russian forces killed him last december in dagestan. dagestani police have revealed to cnn this small-time militant ran training camps for bomb-making that foreigners came to. police gave us images of his group training in the woods. this one explains how to mix and prepare homemade explosives almost anywhere. and the group's pictures suggest they learned to use a mobile phone as a debtonater. >> translator: we do not have audio or visual confirmation, but we have information confirming...
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we have been waiting outside his apartment in dagestan. he drove past twice, but eventually stopped. it does appear the now deceased boston alleged bomber lived for six months last year. we went up to his car while he stopped and asked him a couple of questions. >> cnn. i'm so sorry. we just wanted to hear your story, that was all. it's a very difficult time for you. we just want to give you the chance to tell people how you feel about this. we don't really have a chance to properly hear all you have to say about the terrible circumstances you're in. your sons didn't do this? are you going to america? when will you leave? you will forgive me, sir. it's a difficult time, i'm just trying to do my job here. i understand. when was the last time you spoke to them? have you been in touch with the special services here? what do they have to say to you? okay, i understand. deeply uncomfortable there you can see a little angry in many ways facing those impossible questions about his sons and a situation that no parent could even really possibly ima
we have been waiting outside his apartment in dagestan. he drove past twice, but eventually stopped. it does appear the now deceased boston alleged bomber lived for six months last year. we went up to his car while he stopped and asked him a couple of questions. >> cnn. i'm so sorry. we just wanted to hear your story, that was all. it's a very difficult time for you. we just want to give you the chance to tell people how you feel about this. we don't really have a chance to properly hear...
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the neighboring russian republic region of dagestan, where the father of the two brothers is living, is also having a problem with insurgency, with deaths being reported, killings, assassinations every month. this is an area that has a long legacy of violence. that said, the youngest of the two brothers, dzhokhar, he is believed to have come to america when he was 8 years old. he is not believed to have seen some of these awful things first hand. now, the older brother, we heard from a federal official, speaking to cnn, was 20 years old when he moved to the u.s., around 2004, he may have seen more. if you go to his -- what is believed to be his youtube account, for example, anderson, it is full of really links -- many of them to chechen nationalist causes and also islamist videos and causes, many of them in russian, and some of them he's actually writing in latin letters in russian making messages to other people. it did seem that he had become a devout muslim and was very concerned about muslim causes. we don't know about the younger brother who is still alive, if you follow his twi
the neighboring russian republic region of dagestan, where the father of the two brothers is living, is also having a problem with insurgency, with deaths being reported, killings, assassinations every month. this is an area that has a long legacy of violence. that said, the youngest of the two brothers, dzhokhar, he is believed to have come to america when he was 8 years old. he is not believed to have seen some of these awful things first hand. now, the older brother, we heard from a federal...
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this seven-month stay by tamerlan in dagestan has led u.s. terror experts to speculate on what happened to tamerlan while in dagestan. here's one informed view." while it is too early to tell, i suspect that tamerlan was radicalized in the u.s. but used his months in dagestan to receive the military training and bomb-making skills needed for the boston attacks." so says glen howard, the president of 9 jamestown foundation, a d.c.-based think tank founded to help soviet dissidents. question. was there a lack of follow- through by the white house on the potential threat from chechen terrorism following our deal and our understanding with medvedev? >> i don't think we can blame it on the white house, john. but clearly the russians knew something about tamerlan when they got in touch with us. they had some information. we don't know exactly what it was. enough to go to the fbi and then go to the cia. and they believed that tamerlan was connected with chechen terrorists somehow in some way. and the idea that after all this he goes to dagestan, whi
this seven-month stay by tamerlan in dagestan has led u.s. terror experts to speculate on what happened to tamerlan while in dagestan. here's one informed view." while it is too early to tell, i suspect that tamerlan was radicalized in the u.s. but used his months in dagestan to receive the military training and bomb-making skills needed for the boston attacks." so says glen howard, the president of 9 jamestown foundation, a d.c.-based think tank founded to help soviet dissidents....
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he applied again three months after returning from dagestan. it's hard to separate the political situation and what impact it might have it and his own personal emotional situation. >> absolutely. i read over the weekend everything i could about him, just think of one thing. he came back. he was denied his citizenship by the fbi. when he wanted to become a member of the u.s. olympic boxing team. >> he wants to represent our country at the olympics. >> yes. and so he was denied citizenship. may that have played a role in it? may he have become a sleeper cell? we don't know. we will find out. there are so many contradictions as you said particularly between him and his brother. i want to think -- i think it's important for us to understand that whatever may have happened here, we have got to focus more attention on the terrorist groups that are operating in dagestan that may now become the next source of al qaeda operatives against the united states. >> ambassador mark ginsburg, thank you for being with us. >>> today's tweet of the day comes from
he applied again three months after returning from dagestan. it's hard to separate the political situation and what impact it might have it and his own personal emotional situation. >> absolutely. i read over the weekend everything i could about him, just think of one thing. he came back. he was denied his citizenship by the fbi. when he wanted to become a member of the u.s. olympic boxing team. >> he wants to represent our country at the olympics. >> yes. and so he was denied...
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what happened in dagestan. did he go to chechnya, is that relevant, or was this all centered, perhaps around some radical extremists he met when he was in dagestan? >> reporter: you're right, piers. we don't actually know tamerlan tsarnaev met with radical extremists. we know from his youtube channel, he posted a link to a video of a now dead dagestani extremist called abu dujan, the local almost islamist mafia warlord to a degree, a group of militants who today i spoke to police about. they showed me video of them in the words training with weapons, dressed in camouflage, learning how to make explosives through videos. one photograph of how you would construct a mobile phone-based detonator for a bomb. the police chief also said to us this particular militant group had foreigners working with it who came here to learn. he said it included arabs and turks, to quote him directly there. and i said, could it have included an american, and he couldn't exclude that. he also said it may include people of dagestani or
what happened in dagestan. did he go to chechnya, is that relevant, or was this all centered, perhaps around some radical extremists he met when he was in dagestan? >> reporter: you're right, piers. we don't actually know tamerlan tsarnaev met with radical extremists. we know from his youtube channel, he posted a link to a video of a now dead dagestani extremist called abu dujan, the local almost islamist mafia warlord to a degree, a group of militants who today i spoke to police about....
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there are places in dagestan were officials have not been. so the possibility of someone going there for six months and not being exposed to radicals in one way or another strikes me as slim to none. >> it is not the place you would go fishing. >> among other things. that's right. it is also a place where you would expect someone that had the troubled biography this gentleman did, but an opinion on object of interest. i am more concerned about the six month and dagestan than the fact that the man is an ethnic chechen. >> let me retain my time. would you think that we should be concerned about that? especially if the russian government says -- they tell us two times this is somebody we should be concerned about. and all the sudden he comes back to the united states, maybe a customs official knew it, maybe he did not, but in the area of intelligence, that should raise a red flag. this is not something that should slip under the rug. >> it definitely poses a concern if we did not communicate properly who was visiting the area. i want to address
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there two thousand and one in dagestan and then two thousand they only moved to the u.s. it doesn't sound to you like this could be the making of could take over and plant a block of a bomb in a marathon as big as the boston marathon. or never get free lancers we don't know maybe they had another issue maybe you know they didn't connect. me. with kind of connection around the world. peter peter lavelle they are. cross talk a host just giving us an insight they are not the north caucuses and if indeed there is any connection between the two suspects and the north caucuses we'll have more of that of course as we get more information now our team managed to talk to irina the secretary of the elementary school in dagestan where one of the suspects attended here's what she told us. the first grade and after just a year he left our school his family is from kurdistan there were food children in the family two sisters and two brothers in two thousand one hundred the school and in two thousand and two they left for the u.s. . well let's get more on that about the connection with
there two thousand and one in dagestan and then two thousand they only moved to the u.s. it doesn't sound to you like this could be the making of could take over and plant a block of a bomb in a marathon as big as the boston marathon. or never get free lancers we don't know maybe they had another issue maybe you know they didn't connect. me. with kind of connection around the world. peter peter lavelle they are. cross talk a host just giving us an insight they are not the north caucuses and if...
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dagestan is from life in cambridge, ma dagestan is the where the spillover from the two chechen wars is being felt to this day. it's a very, very violent place. it's a place where the russian army and government is the putting immense pressure on separatists and fundamentalists. there's a real cruel war taking place between a cruel government in moscow and very unzaire savory characters in dagestan and chechnya. this is no longer a matter of romantic nationalism, it's much more a matter of jihadi activity. so what the tsarnaev brothers started to focus in on wasn't just a matter -- >> rose: brothers or one? >> well, i think -- again, the picture seems to be that the younger brother follows the older brother. but the younger brother also is expressing these views on his twitter feed in so far as we can say. these are ideas that 140 characters at shot. sglaefrjtdz s they're starting to look at videos of deeply unsavory religious preachers. there's one named fez mohammed who's australian born who's based in so far as we know malaysia now. he'd been in liverpool and these videos are post
dagestan is from life in cambridge, ma dagestan is the where the spillover from the two chechen wars is being felt to this day. it's a very, very violent place. it's a place where the russian army and government is the putting immense pressure on separatists and fundamentalists. there's a real cruel war taking place between a cruel government in moscow and very unzaire savory characters in dagestan and chechnya. this is no longer a matter of romantic nationalism, it's much more a matter of...
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nick robertson is in dagestan with an "out front" investigation. >> in dagestan, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber noechb here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police check point. minutes later, another blast. the following day revealed the horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this truck apart. callous timing killing emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring chechnya as tamerlan tsarnaev visited his parents here last year. >> this is the same spot here. according to local journalists, for a while, police were too afraid to patrol. >> russel kadye, v, tells me russian authorities are handling the female bombers all wrong. >> it is a problem that's been around over a decade. involving wives of rebel forces. >> when a woman's husband is dead, she has no rights. she can't have a lover or boyfriend. she can't make any decisions. that's why, if she's rely joyce, she becomes an easy target for suicide recruiters. >> finally, in 2002, they took more than 800 host
nick robertson is in dagestan with an "out front" investigation. >> in dagestan, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber noechb here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police check point. minutes later, another blast. the following day revealed the horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this truck apart. callous timing killing emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring...
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he died at the capital of dagestan. that's where tamerlan's father currently lived and where tamerlan spent at least six months in 2012. cnn cannot confirm that tamerlan and abu dijana met, but we know the video that was originally posted on his youtube site was deleted from his youtube account, but still, we have managed to track it down here at cnn. here's the latest information on his younger brother, the surviving boston bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, the 19-year-old. he remains hospitalized in what doctors say is serious but stable condition. and a federal official tells us he has injuries to his throat. he's intubated and is sedated. he can't speak, obviously, despite his condition, tsarnaev could be formally charged as early as today. we're standing by for an announcement by the justice department. a law enforcement source saying ajudge or magistrate will likely come to the hospital, could come to the hospital, bedside, to formally present the charges to the 19-year-old suspect. a justice department official
he died at the capital of dagestan. that's where tamerlan's father currently lived and where tamerlan spent at least six months in 2012. cnn cannot confirm that tamerlan and abu dijana met, but we know the video that was originally posted on his youtube site was deleted from his youtube account, but still, we have managed to track it down here at cnn. here's the latest information on his younger brother, the surviving boston bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, the 19-year-old. he remains...
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what's happened in dagestan is russia crushed the revolt in chechnya. it's moved to dagestan. these people are extraordinarily vicious killers. kill children, kill innocent people, blew up a theater. you're dealing with extremely dangerous people. when you get information from the russians that this man may be connected to something like that -- >> that is unusual for the russians to do this. >> it is. i know they're saying when we get information, we get information, it is unusual to get that kind of information, particularly about -- particularly about -- >> rudy, also, with all your experience again, it's not likely, is it, that these two brothers have just got all this knowledge off the internet and the first time they try and let a bomb off, they let two bombs go off in perfect technique, perfect execution. >> impossible. >> it's not likely, is it? much more likely is that tamerlan, older brother, in dagestan, attended some sort of training camp. >> think about the aborted bombing attempts when trained terrorists weren't able to execute correctly, the detroit christmas mo
what's happened in dagestan is russia crushed the revolt in chechnya. it's moved to dagestan. these people are extraordinarily vicious killers. kill children, kill innocent people, blew up a theater. you're dealing with extremely dangerous people. when you get information from the russians that this man may be connected to something like that -- >> that is unusual for the russians to do this. >> it is. i know they're saying when we get information, we get information, it is unusual...
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nic robertson reports from dagestan. >> reporter: in dagestan's capital last may, an inferno, moments earlier, a female suicide bomber known here as a black widow, detonated a bomb at a police checkpoint. minutes later, another blast. the following day, reveals the full horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this fire truck apart. callus timing killing the emergency service workers, just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring chechnya, playing out as tamerlan tsarnaev visited his parents here last year. this is the same checkpoint, we can't stop here, back then the attack struck fear into the security services. according to local journalists for a while, police were too afraid to patrol. a terror defense lawyer tell me russian short authorities are handling the female bombers all wrong. >> it's not criminal problem. it's social problem. >> reporter: it is a problem that's been around over a decade involving wives of rebels killed by government forces. >> when a woman's husband is dead, she has no rights. she can't hav
nic robertson reports from dagestan. >> reporter: in dagestan's capital last may, an inferno, moments earlier, a female suicide bomber known here as a black widow, detonated a bomb at a police checkpoint. minutes later, another blast. the following day, reveals the full horror. the black widow's brother driving a car bomb blew this fire truck apart. callus timing killing the emergency service workers, just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from...
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what is the reaction in dagestan? >> reporter: certainly people are trying to piece together how long they spent here. russian officials saying the sisters and the younger brother who are in custody now were only here five months. and the records we have seen shown they were in kazakhstan, and going to school for five months, and then in 2002, going to united states. and tamerlan, the older one that was deceased in the boston attacks, it's not clear when he arrived in the u.s., but he did get a green card in 2006. that gives us a five-year window potentially. we don't know where he was. he could have been in russia and he would have been here at a time of extremism. the fallout from the second chechen war ending in 2000, a time in which radicals were getting a grip on this impoverished part of the world. >> i know it's hard to generalized, but what are the general opinions there of the united states? >> reporter: well, i think broadly across russia, sort of a nationalistic taking back to the cold war feeling a slight
what is the reaction in dagestan? >> reporter: certainly people are trying to piece together how long they spent here. russian officials saying the sisters and the younger brother who are in custody now were only here five months. and the records we have seen shown they were in kazakhstan, and going to school for five months, and then in 2002, going to united states. and tamerlan, the older one that was deceased in the boston attacks, it's not clear when he arrived in the u.s., but he did...
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nic robertson is in dagestan with an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: in dagestan's capital last may, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber known here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police checkpoint. minutes later, another blast. the following day reveals the full horror. the black widow's brother, driving a car bomb blew this fire truck apart. callous timing killing the emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal conflict spilling over from neighboring chechnya playing out as tamerlan tsarnaev visited his parents here last year. this is the same checkpoint. we can't stop here. back then the attack struck fear into the security services and according to local journalists for awhile police were too afraid to patrol. russell, a defense lawyer tells me russian authorities are handling the female bombers all wrong. >> it's not criminal problem. it's social problem. >> reporter: it is a problem that has been around over a decade involving wives of rebels killed by government forces. when a woman's husband is dead she has no ri
nic robertson is in dagestan with an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: in dagestan's capital last may, an inferno. moments earlier, a female suicide bomber known here as a black widow detonated a bomb at a police checkpoint. minutes later, another blast. the following day reveals the full horror. the black widow's brother, driving a car bomb blew this fire truck apart. callous timing killing the emergency service workers just as they arrived to put out the flames. a brutal...
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i want to bring in nick payton-walsh in dagestan. you had a fascinating interview with these bombers, alleged bombers' mother today. we also discovered that she turned out to have also been on the receiving end of a warning from the russian authorities to the fbi, and they interviewed her as well back in 2011. a very significant development, you might think. >> reporter: she actually never mentioned when the fbi came to talk to tamerlan, her son, because they were in her words concerned about his radical islamic beliefs, that they in fact also expressed an interest in her. but it would make sense, because the two of them describe how they both went down that devout path pretty much the same time. this character misha, family friend, opening their eyes, in her words, to the correct islamic path, introducing tamerlan who then turned to his mother and said it's time to start covering your hair, dragging her i think it's fair to say, in that direction as well. but i should also point out, this is now i think perhaps the third instance in
i want to bring in nick payton-walsh in dagestan. you had a fascinating interview with these bombers, alleged bombers' mother today. we also discovered that she turned out to have also been on the receiving end of a warning from the russian authorities to the fbi, and they interviewed her as well back in 2011. a very significant development, you might think. >> reporter: she actually never mentioned when the fbi came to talk to tamerlan, her son, because they were in her words concerned...
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the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his alza son time at a line so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible. but if you believe their children who restricted their parents a lot of time or learned was very attentive to older people to use family for him have been was of use mother's feet both parents mobile phones are switched off or rarely own line and it's really impossible to reach them but i have since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and to be that's kept repeating their first son's were innocent she also mentioned that her eldest son tamerlan was under constant surveillance for years when both parents before mentioned that told them that the i would be i can talk to him right after the boston bombings and ask him for questioning however the outfield would be out later denied that information now as for the fathe
the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his alza son time at a line so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible. but if you believe their children who restricted their parents a lot of time or learned was very attentive to older people to use family...
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and everything responsible, however this suspected radical islamist is able to go back to russia and dagestan without the fbi or cia being made aware of it even though homeland security was. i wonder if you want to comment on what senator lindsey graham is suggesting. this is a pretty blunt indictment of the obama administration's handling of these guys, these tsarnaev brothers in boston. >> i think senator graham raises very legitimate questions that require in my view congressional hearings. i've written a letter to senator carper, chairman of the homeland security committee asking for hearings on this. why is it that he left the country, tamerlan, and his -- and only the homeland security committee knew about it. he got back in without anybody knowing about it. and why did the russians feel it necessary to contact two different agencies of government and express their concern? and what were those concerns? so there's a great deal that needs to be investigated. and remember, wolf, that when we did the 9/11 commission and restructured government, one of the major objectives was to make sure
and everything responsible, however this suspected radical islamist is able to go back to russia and dagestan without the fbi or cia being made aware of it even though homeland security was. i wonder if you want to comment on what senator lindsey graham is suggesting. this is a pretty blunt indictment of the obama administration's handling of these guys, these tsarnaev brothers in boston. >> i think senator graham raises very legitimate questions that require in my view congressional...
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he apparently attended school in russia dagestan in the republic of dagestan eleven years ago we reached out to that school and they told us that the young man spent there is spent there a year and the family arrived there from kara just done in two thousand and one and authorities have told the media again that. the family arrived in the u.s. authorities here federal. told the media that the family. that those individuals were was in two thousand and three we i believe we have. we can we can play our conversation with. the school with someone from that school in dagestan we reached out to. involved in the first grade and after just a year he left the school and his family is from kurdistan they were full of children in the family this is and to drop in two thousand one hundred the school and in two thousand and two they left for the u.s. to. and again authorities here are telling reporters that they've apparently been here in the states for the last ten years or so so it's all very sketchy at this point we're going to get more details the suspect who was killed earlier tonight is report
he apparently attended school in russia dagestan in the republic of dagestan eleven years ago we reached out to that school and they told us that the young man spent there is spent there a year and the family arrived there from kara just done in two thousand and one and authorities have told the media again that. the family arrived in the u.s. authorities here federal. told the media that the family. that those individuals were was in two thousand and three we i believe we have. we can we can...
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never travel to dagestan in south russia where the mother lives to find out more about the family's back story. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chechnya to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and she told me how devastated she is and that she still can't believe that her sons may have been involved in the bombings in our house nobody talked about the terrorist my son. or what they were. involved in the leader you know. i really do believe that's pretty high few years ago he was told by a b i like why . he knew they knew what my. what action what. we were going how could this happen how could be they were conjoined we. never ever heard this is not my sons are in and those neighbors we spoke to our shox they said that it was a very nice and a very quiet family. i know
never travel to dagestan in south russia where the mother lives to find out more about the family's back story. the investigation into the background of this have knives brothers has brought us here to this part of the capital of dagestan now this is the house where their parents left however as we try to reach them this morning it turned out that they fled to the neighboring region of chechnya to their relatives to avoid all the attention meanwhile this morning i managed to speak to the mother...
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on the scene for us in dagestan. as we wait for the formal charges to be filed against the younger brother, many wonder if the fbi should have been watching tamerlan tsarnaev the older brother more closely. former fbi assistant director tom fuenten joining us. did the fbi miss certain indicators when they were tipped off from the russian authorities? what are you hear something. >> reporter: well, what the fbi will be doing is exactly that, they will go back to examining the original request made by the russian federation to the fbi agents in moscow, how much knowledge they had, did it look like it was a search for information about his political beliefs or religious beliefs or in fact what the basis of suspicion was that he was involved with the militant group. they will look at what they did in response to that request in boston and other places to try and determine could it be determined on this end that he was in contact with militant groups or other groups here in the u.s. that could be linked to a militant grou
on the scene for us in dagestan. as we wait for the formal charges to be filed against the younger brother, many wonder if the fbi should have been watching tamerlan tsarnaev the older brother more closely. former fbi assistant director tom fuenten joining us. did the fbi miss certain indicators when they were tipped off from the russian authorities? what are you hear something. >> reporter: well, what the fbi will be doing is exactly that, they will go back to examining the original...
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he's the guy that went back to dagestan. he's the guy that may have had the activity with militants. we don't actually know what dzhokhar did, if anything, in that respect. >> but what we -- >> he may have been led on and corrupted by his brother. i don't want to suppose that, either. but here's the point. everything you say applies mainly to his brother in terms of evidential material that's come out. so we're left with dzhokhar being an american citizen. >> this is where i disagree. >> he's surely entitled, ben, to the normal rights of any other american citizen. the moment you rip it up for him, you've got to rip it up for everybody. >> but here's the difference. we know that al qaeda has obviously trained, we know this from awlaki and we know they have been told to travel in small groups or by themselves, not to travel in large groups so if one person gets caught maybe the whole plan doesn't go. this is very much al qaeda and the way they've done things from what we've learned from al qaeda since 9/11 happened in this co
he's the guy that went back to dagestan. he's the guy that may have had the activity with militants. we don't actually know what dzhokhar did, if anything, in that respect. >> but what we -- >> he may have been led on and corrupted by his brother. i don't want to suppose that, either. but here's the point. everything you say applies mainly to his brother in terms of evidential material that's come out. so we're left with dzhokhar being an american citizen. >> this is where i...
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one is of course this link to dagestan may be much more sinister. we now know tamerlan, who had a wife and young baby here, decides to go back home for six months. we don't know what he got up to there, but we do know there were active islamic fundamentalist groups training in forests. with all your expert knowledge of bomb making and bombs, is it likely that they could have pulled off this boston marathon double bombing in the extremely efficient successful way that they did without having physically trained with similar devices, at least tamerlan, back in somewhere like dagestan? >> you know, piers, it actually works either way. either way, it has certain requirements. when you see the case, it also presents certain gaps. the biggest gap right now is that six-month trip to dagestan, because it could be all the answers we're looking for. where did they get the expert training, where were they able to test the device. you're not going to go read up on a device, follow the instructions, make it, put it in a public place, and set it off without first
one is of course this link to dagestan may be much more sinister. we now know tamerlan, who had a wife and young baby here, decides to go back home for six months. we don't know what he got up to there, but we do know there were active islamic fundamentalist groups training in forests. with all your expert knowledge of bomb making and bombs, is it likely that they could have pulled off this boston marathon double bombing in the extremely efficient successful way that they did without having...
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of the family came to dagestan in september two thousand and one when the boys rolled into a school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dagestan they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up they first entered the school together with their two sisters back in two thousand and one however for a very short period of time in two thousand and two they left to the united states . or russia special services are also stress of the boston bombing suspects of a very tenuous connection to russia lived there for many years as we are just now here's what a source in the russian intelligence said quote since the brothers did not reside in russia or a special services could not provide our foreign partners in any valuable intelligence saddam but russian special services services are still nonetheless working closely with their american partners we got another quote as well saying quote we've established communications through the appropriate channels and our contacts will continue they were not. say now moscow warned against classing terroris
of the family came to dagestan in september two thousand and one when the boys rolled into a school then they apparently managed to get papers to leave dagestan they left in less than a year they didn't spend a long time here and they didn't grow up they first entered the school together with their two sisters back in two thousand and one however for a very short period of time in two thousand and two they left to the united states . or russia special services are also stress of the boston...
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russia says two of the jihadists thatere killed in the raid in dagestan. meanwhile, the bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is now locked inside a 10 x 10 foot cell with a steel door, a slot for food and a small observation window in that door. a prison spokesman says the 19-year-old is now able to speak and has been interacting with medical staff. and a memorial for the victims continues to grow in boston's copley square. thousands of people are going there to pay their respects. we have reporters on the scene bringing us all the latest developments. investigators right now are searching for any clues that will help them determine whether the boston bombings suspect tamerlan tsarnaev had tied to jih jihadist. and that overnight raid in russia is raising even more questions. for more on how the group may be linked to the boston terror suspect, let's bring in cnn's nick paton walsh on the scene for us in moscow. nick, what's the possible connection that authorities are investigating? >> well, the raid you've just been seeing pictures of took place very early
russia says two of the jihadists thatere killed in the raid in dagestan. meanwhile, the bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is now locked inside a 10 x 10 foot cell with a steel door, a slot for food and a small observation window in that door. a prison spokesman says the 19-year-old is now able to speak and has been interacting with medical staff. and a memorial for the victims continues to grow in boston's copley square. thousands of people are going there to pay their respects. we have...
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he made a trip over sees to d asha dagestan. this is a perfect storm of events that led us to the boston marathon. it would have been great if the russians gave us more information. they knew of him having some contacts with poem they were concerned about overseas. these are judgments. when you sit down across the table from this individual, he was interviewed. the fbi agents had to make some judgments. they came to a judgement that two years later or so appeared to be the wrong one. that's one of the things we'll have go back and look at. what did we miss here? what happened between 2011 and 2013? that's two years. like i said, i think that trip to russia to dagestan was critical in his radicalization that ultimately led to the bombings last week. >> investigators will be piecing this timeline together every minute over the next days and weeks. peter brookes, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>> new this morning, there is shock from the aunt of the accused boston bombers. nick paton walsh spoke to her earlier
he made a trip over sees to d asha dagestan. this is a perfect storm of events that led us to the boston marathon. it would have been great if the russians gave us more information. they knew of him having some contacts with poem they were concerned about overseas. these are judgments. when you sit down across the table from this individual, he was interviewed. the fbi agents had to make some judgments. they came to a judgement that two years later or so appeared to be the wrong one. that's one...
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. >> it was six months in dagestan. also perhaps a visit to chechnya. >> you're hearing the russians saying, hey, we told you so. were they profiling him in russia? and if not, why not. how many people did the russians ask for us to look out? if it was thousands, then he was no different than any other. those are the questions for the investigation. of course the u.s. attorney is preparing a case. it is going to go through a normal article three court. the big question i think is going to be is there going to be a change of venue given what this city has gone through. can you find -- once we get to that point, can you find an objective jury? >> did they do practice runs not only the scene, but did that explode devices previously? there were some reports of local unexplained explosions in various areas around here, but it is not clear whether or not they tested these devices. >> right. we think it is ov-- there is ren in the city. the turnpike is open. that's important for people's sense of civility. people will -- the f
. >> it was six months in dagestan. also perhaps a visit to chechnya. >> you're hearing the russians saying, hey, we told you so. were they profiling him in russia? and if not, why not. how many people did the russians ask for us to look out? if it was thousands, then he was no different than any other. those are the questions for the investigation. of course the u.s. attorney is preparing a case. it is going to go through a normal article three court. the big question i think is...